Sentences with phrase «backroom meetings»

That bill was jettisoned on Monday in favor of a new proposal hammered out over the last week in backroom meetings between lawmakers and representatives of school districts and charter schools.

Not exact matches

Huge and widely publicised fan anger; open discussion among respected national journalists on who will be his successor (They take his sacking for granted); a board meeting this Monday to which he was summoned; all the backroom changes made by Gazidis, over Wengers head.

Meet the manager, players, backroom staff - and gain an insight into the United life!

He also accused Koch of striking a «backroom» deal to amend the bill to address partisan concerns during a private meeting with the governor last week.

After the backroom conversation failed, sources said that several members of the county organization in attendance attempted to convince Mr. Philpotts — who is recovering from surgery — to leave the meeting prematurely, without completing all the steps required to make himself the nominee.

Across the city, this man, accustomed to board meetings and backroom negotiations, had become recognizable.

Members of the New York County Democratic Committee, upset about a backroom deal their chair, Keith Wright, cut to choose a candidate for a vacant state Senate seat, will push a resolution at a meeting tomorrow night that would prohibit county party officials from also working for firms that lobby.

With machine - like efficiency, the board would have a meeting in the backroom, and then the meeting in the meeting room — where it was not unusual for every item on the agenda to pass with no discussion.

He gives this mousy little clerk the hapless expression and submissive body language of the resigned patsy in a bleak human comedy, happy to toiling in the backrooms of city hall until he's hauled out to record an official meeting.

There were the plenary meetings and the backrooms; there was the convergence center and the sprawling, astonishing demonstration.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm late for a meeting in a smoke - filled backroom with some close friends to discuss the future of electronic tobacco policy.

Maintain and replenish products in store racks, shelves, displays, and coolers by transporting product between backroom / storage room to front - of - store with manual or powered equipment (pallet jack, hand - truck) ensuring Right Execution Daily meeting company standards for product display